Archive for 2015

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Emergency,  Eye Vision Is Impaired, Exterminate, Exterminate!

Emergency, Eye Vision Is Impaired, Exterminate, Exterminate!

Emergency, emergency, eye vision is impaired, exterminate, exterminate! Straight away you’re learning something new about me, I’m a Doctor Who Fan. Part of the title may have given that away. In a recent Doctor Who episode (Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 2: The Witch's Familiar) we saw Missy and Clara walking through ...
What’s Most Important in Your Life?

What’s Most Important in Your Life?

Having just put the phone down to my doctor, absorbing the latest health issue that I now need to deal with, which I will, a question popped into my head, "What's Most Important in Your Life?" We often talk about our priorities in life. But how many of us have ever stopped ...
Don’t Just Exist, Live A Life

Don’t Just Exist, Live A Life

Don't just exist, live a life. To truly live life, means that you really experience it, enjoy it to the fullest, never taking it for granted.  Dying, death and bereavement are important parts of everyone’s lives. They happen to us all, and many of us will be affected by the death ...
Get Your Emotions In Check  – Coping with Visual Impairment

Get Your Emotions In Check – Coping with Visual Impairment

How we deal with, manage and react to what happens in our life will very much determine our progress and development. In extreme cases a momentary reaction can influence, if not shape, the next ten (twenty, fifty) years of our life. For good or bad. Yet many of our reactions will ...
What You Can Potentially Achieve

What You Can Potentially Achieve

Let’s talk about you, about the person you are and what you can potentially achieve. Every day of your life, virtually from the moment you were born, you have taken a journey which has navigated you to the point you are at. Many of you feel you are not really ‘living’. You ...
Life Is Just Passing You By

Life Is Just Passing You By

You read in magazines or on line, see on television all these happy people seemingly living their lives to the fullest, yet there are you feeling stuck, frazzled, and with a sense that life is just passing you by. What can you do differently to change the way you feel? Not that ...
Change Your Outlook or Let Visual Impairment Destroy You

Change Your Outlook or Let Visual Impairment Destroy You

Life is too precious to waste feeling sorry for yourself or fearing what nightmares may be waiting ahead of you on life’s journey so you have to change your outlook. You wake up on a Monday morning. What is the first thought that comes to your mind? When first diagnosed with visual impairment it is ...
Visual Impairment – Loneliness and Social Isolation

Visual Impairment – Loneliness and Social Isolation

Visual impairment will initially have an incredibly negative impact on both your mental health and quality of life. The effects range from practical issues regarding daily activities to a decline in psychological wellbeing, and one of the most difficult things to deal with is the feeling of loneliness and social isolation.. Many ...
Life Has Its Ups and Downs

Life Has Its Ups and Downs

Life Has Its Ups and Downs, but it is entirely up to you to ensure there are more ups than downs.  It is said 'only when we move forward out of fear can we truly embrace life's ups and downs with dignity and grace.' “Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in ...
Visual Impairment – How to Avoid Emotional Meltdown

Visual Impairment – How to Avoid Emotional Meltdown

One of the toughest things to cope with when trying to deal with visual impairment or recovery from any other illness is dealing with the emotional issues. If you don’t, then potentially you risk facing emotional meltdown which is a rapid or disastrous decline or collapse of your emotions which could ...